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The term "pain of birth" has been searched for 19 times on the American Poems site since July 29th, 2005.
Search Results: 3 poets and 25 poems matched this query.
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1. Birth-Dues - written by Robinson Jeffers
From Dear Judas And Other Poems.
Read 741 times on American Poems.
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely
contemptible, the dangled
Carrot the ass follows to market or precipice;
But limitary pain -- the rock under the tower
and the hewn coping
That takes thunder at the head of the... (Read full poem)
2. Pain has but one Acquaintance - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1991 times on American Poems.
Pain has but one Acquaintance
And that is Death --
Each one unto the other
Society enough.
Pain is the Junior Party
By just a Second's right --
Death tenderly assists Him
And then absconds from Sight.(Read full poem)
3. Pain -- has an Element of Blank -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 6945 times on American Poems.
Pain -- has an Element of Blank --
It cannot recollect
When it begun -- or if there were
A time when it was not --
It has no Future -- but itself --
Its Infinite contain
Its Past -- enlightened to perceive
New Periods -- of Pain.(Read full poem)
4. Pain -- expands the Time -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1976 times on American Poems.
Pain -- expands the Time --
Ages coil within
The minute Circumference
Of a single Brain --
Pain contracts -- the Time --
Occupied with Shot
Gamuts of Eternities
Are as they were not --(Read full poem)
5. Sonnet 04: Not In This Chamber Only At My Birth - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Renascence and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 1561 times on American Poems.
Not in this chamber only at my birth—
When the long hours of that mysterious night
Were over, and the morning was in sight—
I cried, but in strange places, steppe and firth
I have not seen, through alien grief and mirth;
And never... (Read full poem)
6. Ernest Hyde - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 719 times on American Poems.
My mind was a mirror:
It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew.
In youth my mind was just a mirror
In a rapidly flying car,
Which catches and loses bits of the landscape.
Then in time
Great scratches were made on the mirror,
Letting... (Read full poem)
7. The hallowing of Pain - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1900 times on American Poems.
The hallowing of Pain
Like hallowing of Heaven,
Obtains at a corporeal cost --
The Summit is not given
To Him who strives severe
At middle of the Hill --
But He who has achieved the Top --
All -- is the price of All --(Read full poem)
8. There is a pain -- so utter -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2973 times on American Poems.
There is a pain -- so utter --
It swallows substance up --
Then covers the Abyss with Trance --
So Memory can step
Around -- across -- upon it --
As one within a Swoon --
Goes safely -- where an open eye --
Would drop Him -- Bone by Bone.(Read full poem)
9. Are Friends Delight or Pain? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4621 times on American Poems.
Are Friends Delight or Pain?
Could Bounty but remain
Riches were good --
But if they only stay
Ampler to fly away
Riches are sad.(Read full poem)
10. Twelfth Night - written by David Lehman
Read 1027 times on American Poems.
His first infidelity was a mistake, but not as big
As her false pregnancy. Later, the boy found out
He was born three months earlier than the date
On his birth certificate, which had turned into
A marriage license in his hands. Had he been... (Read full poem)
11. Journey Of The Magi - written by T.S. Eliot
From The Faber Book of Modern Verse.
Read 25455 times on American Poems.
'A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.'
And the camels galled, sore-footed,
refractory,
Lying down in the melting... (Read full poem)
12. If pain for peace prepares - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4570 times on American Poems.
If pain for peace prepares
Lo, what "Augustan" years
Our feet await!
If springs from winter rise,
Can the Anemones
Be reckoned up?
If night stands fast -- then noon
To gird us for the sun,
What gaze!
When from a thousand skies
On our developed... (Read full poem)
13. A Grey Mood - written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read 1101 times on American Poems.
As we hurry away to the end, my friend,
Of this sad little farce called existence,
We are sure that the future will bring one thing,
And that is the grave in the distance.
And so when our lives run along all wrong,
And nothing seems real or... (Read full poem)
14. A Question - written by Robert Frost
From A Witness Tree.
Published in 1942.
Read 15574 times on American Poems.
A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.(Read full poem)
15. Reuben's Children - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 1795 times on American Poems.
Accursed from their birth they be
Who seek to find monogamy,
Pursuing it from bed to bed-
I think they would be better dead.(Read full poem)
16. There is a Languor of the Life - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1481 times on American Poems.
There is a Languor of the Life
More imminent than Pain --
'Tis Pain's Successor -- When the Soul
Has suffered all it can --
A Drowsiness -- diffuses --
A Dimness like a Fog
Envelops Consciousness --
As Mists -- obliterate a Crag.
The Surgeon --... (Read full poem)
17. Star of My Heart - written by Vachel Lindsay
Read 926 times on American Poems.
Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,
Where Time is not, and only dreamers are.
Star from of old, the Magi-Kings are dead
And a foolish Saxon seeks the manger-bed.
O lead me to Jehovah's... (Read full poem)
18. The Room - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 3670 times on American Poems.
Through that window—all else being extinct
Except itself and me—I saw the struggle
Of darkness against darkness. Within the room
It turned and turned, dived downward. Then I saw
How order might—if chaos wished—become:
And saw... (Read full poem)
19. Father Death Blues (Don't Grow Old, Part V) - written by Allen Ginsberg
Published in 1976.
Read 8162 times on American Poems.
Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
Hey poor man, you're all alone
Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going
Father Death, Don't cry any more
Mama's there, underneath the floor
Brother Death, please mind the store
Old Aunty Death Don't hide your... (Read full poem)
20. After great pain, a formal feeling comes - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 25093 times on American Poems.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes --
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs --
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?
The Feet, mechanical, go round --
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought --
A Wooden... (Read full poem)
21. To learn the Transport by the Pain - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2228 times on American Poems.
To learn the Transport by the Pain
As Blind Men learn the sun!
To die of thirst -- suspecting
That Brooks in Meadows run!
To stay the homesick -- homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore --
Haunted by native lands, the while --
And blue -- beloved... (Read full poem)
23. Testament - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 2327 times on American Poems.
Oh, let it be a night of lyric rain
And singing breezes, when my bell is tolled.
I have so loved the rain that I would hold
Last in my ears its friendly, dim refraln.
I shall lie cool and quiet, who have lain
Fevered, and watched the book of day... (Read full poem)
24. THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Poems on Slavery.
Read 3765 times on American Poems.
In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp
The hunted Negro lay;
He saw the fire of the midnight camp,
And heard at times a horse's tramp
And a bloodhound's distant bay.
Where will-o'-the-wisps and glow-worms shine,
In bulrush and in brake;
Where waving... (Read full poem)
25. Eugenia Todd - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 390 times on American Poems.
Have any of you, passers-by,
Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort?
Or a pain in the side that never quite left you?
Or a malignant growth that grew with time?
So that even in profoundest slumber
There was shadowy consciousness or... (Read full poem)
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